President; Janet Quarton, c/o Mr. Woodhouse, Sutton Hill' Farm, :Blandford, TIorset:i ; '" Secretary; :Beth Hallam, Flat 3, 36 Clapham Rd., :Bedford. Editor; Sheila Clark, 6 Craigmill Cottages, Strathmartine, by TIundee. Art Editor, Helen McCarthy, 96A, Fonthill Rd, Finsbury Park, London N4 3HT Honorary members; Gene Roddenberry, Jim TIoohan, George Takei. *****'************** .: Hello there; my namets :Beth Hallam, 11m the ffat' one that played the 'male ', that's right, the male Tellarite in the fashion show. As Janet told you in the last newsletter, I entered S~T.A.G. cbmini tt:ee 2S f general dogsbodyt. And haven't I lived up to that, ti tl e! L~ Elnyone wants anything done, particularly anything , unple8'sant 'or messy '- they saylphone':Beth, she'll do it!" Tt 1 s all 8 foul plot of She"ila Cl"a"rkl s! ... .; I ..... \ Well; I'sup"pDs-e. that' s what 11m for! Who ran off 100 'Zlnes in EI. fortnight? I tll gi V8 you. one guess; (I was .turning that handle 'in my sl;/,p'j ElDtJ. black ink seerri.s to get everywhere. Anyone',withe me'thod of'rEmoving it from inside a Swiss WEltch, please send in 'a plain envelope to .... !) Who took on's al'es,1 ? Right aga'in!' Who . is writing thi~ letter? ' ItWhy:n you. ask, Ilis writing EI letter to all you. nice people an unpleEls;)nt t1..lsk?11 Well, of course, it ±snlt, except that I have to , write abotl t a difflcul t subj ect - money! , , S.T.A .G. is a non-profi t-inaking organisation, but we must have an inc:>IDc. This makes sense, because just running the club takes 'money; a fair anlountof money. For example, at present prices .it 'costr £50 to send out'one newsletter. A newsletter is sent to you @ver;y two months. This means that to keep the club ticking over 'we mus t have an income of £50 ever,Y two months. ' That is £300 per . 'EiM1im. 'TIoing that we" re.ise nothing towards publishing zines or org8nislng 60ns or ~inicons. ' .Owing to"~everal f~ctors; the present economic situEltiori, 'the fact that the excellent 1975 con had to be subsidised from S.T.A.G. funds, the financial position bf the club is giving room for concern. One of the greatest drains on our funds is the mainten­ ance of Life membership. Life members are unprofitable - we have to payout for them, and get no regular income in return. Of course, when the Life membership was instituted it WEIS never visualised'that costsw~uld rise so high) nOr that S.T.A.G~ would acquire such 8 large "~ife memb ership. Now, t'::l.e question arises, how can we deal with the problem? Firstly, no more Life memberships will be offered .. The simplest waj to ~c~~18 the problem of existing Life members would be if those 2 " "l- , ..... of us who took o~~~ife.~m;8~e.;.e.h~'p~ '?ua,.W'hb haVi'~.'beeniriembers for a reasonable lengtp>~o'~\ tilli~~'~~i'iIiJ.$t'~%:o·~r~ansfer ou'r'4)fre~beTship to annual subscri-ption:."T'q "'a::Q,;:-this' you should w,..,Hp to Ja'net, ie. Mi ss 'J a:n:et QU1:Hf6n:'; c/ o,M:F . Woodhouse, Sutton Hill Farm, ::Blandford, Dorset. Enclose the amount for a yearls subscription (£1.50) and tell Janet the date from which 'you wish your new membershi-p to run. If enough Life members do this, S.T.A.G. will be able to continue as a viable proposition. I am making this appeal on behalf of you and for you, t~at S.T~.A . G. '~ay surviv'e to offeri ts members the services they went and need. Yours sincerely, Live long and prosper, Beth. ******************* , One'or two Life members hlwe G'ctuelly' ~l?i tten to: mek1ng this sugget!l'iJion 8S w~ll, and a couple,have even transferred to annual memberShip already. *,****************** Hi~ ~v~ry?rie. t wonlt bor~ you ~ll with a long letter this time a~ ::B~thh~s covered most 6f what ~8S to be said. I would just like to ,ada that since,' 75% of our members have life membership as the moment, you can understand our difficulties. , ' Anyway, enough of ~he bad news. live now got some good news for you'cill. A few weeks'ago I wrote to Gene Roddenberry on your "behalf and invited him to be an honorary member of S.T.A.G. I had a very nice let't,er 9ack 'from his oe,sretary, Susan, Sa ckett, saying that Gene is invqlved.with several deadlines at the moment but that he asked her' to answer and say I yes! of cou:ts.e. I I d be delighted. If So 11m sure youlll all want me to wish Gene Roddenberry a very warm welcome as an honorary member of S.T.A.G .. I also sent Mr. Roddenberry a copy of our last newsletter 8nd it seems that both he and Susan loyed Robin Hill IS satire op. the film. So come on, Robin, 1 et I shave's c)'me more. , If your .subscription runs out wi tlJ. this newsletter your renewal d~~ew{ll b~ Dn the front ne2r youra4dress. We will try to bring 'out the hewslette:cs regularly ever.y two months - end of December, February,' April, June and Octob er, so ple8se renew by t-he middle of these months if you wa~t to be sure of getting the next newletter. That's it for now, folks. Ihop~ you ~ll had a nice time ove~ Christmas and letls hope we get plenty' of "S';PAR TREKIf in 1976. Live long and prosper, Janet. *******************. Quete from Mr. Spock, Viewing s~ars through viewer: Twihkl e, twinkl e, 1 it tl e s ta r, How I wonder what you are, I wish I may, I wish I might, ~Aww shucks, it'~ just a satellitel' , , :8. Wright. 3 Dear friends andFe~low Tr~kkies, As you know, we have decided to hend over the running of S~T.A.G~ into the capable care of Janet, Sheila, Eeth and Helen. It was not 8 decision we made lightly, but after c~r~fulconsider­ ation, we made it for several reasons. The main one ~and mos~ important one - was that, after running S .T·.lLG. for well over itwo years, it was time for a change. For without it, things become stale, and we did.not .want this to happen. S.T.A.G. has ccime_~ long way since thee~rly days when, alting with the other thtrty known STAR TREK fans in Great Eritain we shared a dreem; that dream came true twice'in the shape of two Conventions, and we hope we started something which will continue and prove conclusively that STAR TREK still lives! Now, S~T.A.G~ has 400 members, and we are very pleased that, through the club, we were able to share our enthusiesm with so many of you.' We are not deserting STAR TREK entirely! It is nOWB part of our lives which is very close to us. And we Bre continuing to be involved, because, aIring with Johanna Eutler, the retiring Vice tl President of S.T.A"G~, we do run t1Hosato , the European ·a.p.d. Commonwealth Fan Club of George TBkei, and we are following up some very exciting ideas for this club. In conclusion, we would like to thank, most sincerely, all the retiring members of S .. T.A.G.; Johanna Butler; Marian Kennedy, Jennifer Harding and Karen Gilmurray, who have worked hard, long hours for the club. ,We·would also like to thank Janet Quarton and He~en McOa rthy for their hard work as club officials whilst we were in office- and we wish them luck in. their continuence with ·:S:~:A.G. as we do the newcomers - Sheila and Beth. And of course, to all of S.T.A.G.'s members, without whom the club would not have been possible. This is a new eraot S.T.A.G. and we know that She will most certainly Live.longand prospeE . : Peace! Jenny and Terry. ******************* And the B .B. C. have .don.e it again.! " They are now threatening to put. ST1\R TREK on OVel? the Christmas period. (By. the time you read this, youlll know ifthe,Y heve, in fact, done that horrible thing to us.) Because for ev~ry· 6ne of us wh6 cen manage to watch STAR TREK halfway through the morning, there are fifty who can l t. So why don!t we write them. Point· out to them that STAR TREK is a sensible adult programme for sensible adult Viewers, and why don't they put it on when mOst of us can see it. THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN WRITING DO NOT: 1. Use letters with:prepared wording, or petitions. One letter is worth 8 hundred signatures. 2. Threaten. 3. Identify youreelf 8S B member of any S11.AR TREK orgBnisation. 5 . Write I cute I letters . This is 8 business letter. Anony- mous letters also present a very b~d image . .. 1. .Type or wri tea ·neatintelligent letter with a firm. .voicing .of opinion. '" 0. Useletter-he8dedpBp~r if it representati~e of you ·person- m_ly. It is ideal for ~ointing out that the writer is a responsib1 p individual. 4 3. Be brief. 4. Be spontaneous, intelligent, mature, sincere, polite and courteous . Write to The B .